About Ashi Meraya Lodge
”What I Learned at Ashi Meraya: Expect Magic” Torkel Lundberg (Filmmaker, Sweden)
Photo Credit: Andrey Emelianov
We co-founded Ashi Meraya in the year 2004. Not too far – and not too close either! – to civilization, our lodge is reached after about one and half hours drive from the heart of the jungle town of Iquitos, the capital of the vast department of Loreto, in the North West Amazon Rainforest of Peru.
The Lodge is located near the Allpahuayo Mishana Natural Reserve, inside one of Peru’s rarest white sand rainforest.
Our unique Ayahuasca and Plant Diet retreats are available all year round (including the Christmas, New Year and Easter periods) and subject to previous screening of participants, with advance booking only. All the people who manage our centre are from the Shipibo-Conibo indigenous ethnic group of the Peruvian Amazon, and are renowned for their great sense of hospitality and kindness.
To say it with the words of a past retreat participant, they are “grace personified”!! All retreats begin with a Shipibo ”ceremonia de bienvenida” – i.e. a “welcome ceremony” – when you will be introduced to the centre and to the native and local people living there. You will be explained about the schedule of your retreat (whether Ayahuasca or Plant Diet) and have the opportunity to introduce yourself.
Main bungalows painted with Shipibo geometrical designs, in Ashi Meraya
Photo Credit: Andrey Emelianov
There is an absolute minimum time of one week, for Ayahuasca healing retreats in Ashi Meraya, and – currently – a maximum time of twenty-four weeks for Ayahuasca and shamanic plant diet retreats. Longer periods may be agreed on, for the most experienced, on successful acceptance of your application. Participants may be screened for suitability. Final acceptance of your applications is subject to availability and fulfilment of our reservation requirements.
Beautiful jungle stream crossing Ashi Meraya
Photo Credit: Andrey Emelianov
Why Ashi Meraya?
The beautiful Ashi Meraya Retreat Centre and Jungle Lodge, in the Amazon Rain Forest, near Iquitos
Photo Credit: Heberto Hiran Garcia Ramirez
To honour the memory and the spirit of the legendary Ashi Meraya – a semi-divine being reputed capable of supernatural feats respected among all Shipibos in general and revered among all Merayas in particular as their own God – our shamanic retreat centre has now changed its name to that of “Ashi Meraya” [...] Read more…
The Reception bungalow in Ashi Meraya, surrounded by luscious jungle vegetation
Photo Credit: Francesco Sammarco
Accommodation in Ashi Meraya
All guests doing the Ayahuasca retreat may stay either in one of the three double, very spacious comfortable bungalows (Amazonian thatched roof buildings, built on stilts)…Read more…
